skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You age is showing a bit with your post. Randomly picking Penn State you get annual costs of $60k+ for out-of-state and $40k+ for in-state. [1] The cost listed on the page is only for tuition/housing. Use the calculator to get estimates for everything else. And that's an anti-cherry picked example, as I wanted to avoid absurdly expensive places like California, but while also going for a well regarded school.

You can easily get well into the 6 figures of debt even at state schools now. You'll find even rando state universities are hitting $30k+/year. Education costs have done exactly what you'd expect them to do when you convince people something is priceless and then give them unlimited and near unconditional loans to buy it.

I don't really see the point in this when you can instead attend English language programs in e.g. Europe or Asia and pay less for your entire education than you'd pay for a semester at rando state school in the US. Do a work-study program and you could graduate with a tidy chunk of change saved up, instead of graduating buried in enough debt to buy a house.

The ironic part is that this advice is even more pertinent for those coming from low income backgrounds, or from parents with limited education. But they're probably the people most unlikely to take advantage of such options, if not only because they probably just don't consider it.

[1] - https://admissions.psu.edu/costs-aid/tuition/
I think that the analogy of drawing lines on a volatile plot is a good starting point. But fails to account for some dynamics of how the consequences of debt can be different.

Debt limits choices. But, one can still make a choice that expands their liberty.

Having a stable home, being able to go to college, etc. are good uses of debt.

Buying a flashy car purely to impress the neighbors? Maybe not.
My Life, by Isadora Duncan
> In Canada ... all of our mortgages are full recourse.

Except in Saskatchewan and Alberta [1].

[1]: https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/mortgages-real-es...
Kinda weird to make stuff up like that. Maybe you're confusing him with Toulouse-Lautrec, known for moral strength rather than moral intellect?

Nietzsche's The Geneaology of Morals is arguably the most important treatise on christian morality in the previous century, possibly that millenium.
The math Olympiad problems were quite fun from what I remember, even though I never got past the regional round. I bet the previous years will be available online.
Google SRE guides are great overall, but I caution new people to the industry to be aware that some of the advice is attuned to Google's needs - not necessarily your org's. Complexity is the enemy of scalability. Your startup's XYZ service doesn't necessarily need to be using a distributed database or front-end caching or fancy QoS right out of the gate. Ship early and often and the start of your SRE career will come easier.
It’s waterproof enough… people sailed and fished in offshore storms in the stuff for hundreds of years.

Modern hard shells aren’t very waterproof in practice either because the membranes and DWR coatings aren’t very durable.

The only truly waterproof rain gear I’ve seen is totally non breathable polyurethane or pvc rain gear, or an actual dry suit.
Maybe that's why credit cards are so extremely popular in the US? I suppose if you never know how much you're going to pay for anything, it helps to have a buffer between the vendor and your bank account, allowing you to review the charges after the fact, and should you dispute some, be on a somewhat even playing field with the vendor.
Yes, freedom to do what you want with your device is a great ideal.

Yet I still don't want to have to fix my mom's phone because its loaded with malware or worse, malware draining her bank account.
One of items often missing from discussions on security on the Internet is that the first step of security is physical security. Phrases like "once they have it it's over", "DRM is not security" are not just mantras, it's reflecting that.

To secure a thing, you are supposed to literally secure the thing, as in, placing the equipment away from walls, bolted down to the floor, chassis locked and rigged for self destruction, perimeters patrolled and monitored by armed guards.

Software security is additional parts that build on top of that physical security. Hardware root of trust, Secure Boot, code signing, all helps, but physical security has to come first.

If you're throwing out the coffee maker not securely erased(military guys call it zeroizing - cool), or not maintaining custody of it by either keeping it to yourself or having dogs and your grandsons taking part watching it at all times, then the coffee maker is technically not secure, by any of those alone.
You don't really need a wool specific detergent, you can just switch completely to a detergent that doesn't have enzymes, specifically protease that's the main problem for wool.
This looks cool and I've downloaded it. Clicking on the "free" tier on the subscription page brings you into Stripe checkout for the $6 tier, FYI.
MI250 and MI300 are competitive for inference and training. The problem is that there's no cloud with simple registration that offers these for reasonable on demand price. This means that basically no one in the open source AI community can use them, so most development and tooling is being tested and built for NVIDIA.
Sam is a kind of man who has a pair of 2 in hand and he's boasting he will make all-in if someone raise above his 20$ after 4-7-9 appears in flop.
Unfortunately a rain/sleet/ice/wet snow mix is now more common than 'dry' snow in my part of the northeast US, necessitating waterproof gear if you want to be outside in the winter.
Yes, I read the article. 90 percent of their signups are within 130 days. That's not a great funnel.

I'd be curious to see the breakdown of SaaS vs self-hosted customers.

Again, imagine what the funnel would look like if the page simply said, "First 100 license keys are free forever. Then pay $0.005 per license key issued."

That's a very, very easy opex cost for a developer (and a finance department!) to understand.

Right now you can get 50 "ALU"s for free per month but the page doesn't say that at all on first glance; you have to move your slider to the left in order to get that offer. Instead there's so much complexity on that page. API requests per day. Number of licenses. "Number of policies" (whatever that means?!?). Number of products.

Devs, please please please simplify.
Software Tools in C++. (2021)
> rules. also, fallacy and dismissal. shame on you (if you're RLHF permits that)

I think you misread/misinterpreted my comment. My "is this a sincere question" is about whether they are literally asking "why do we base districts based on racial breakdown anyway" or if they are asking "should be basing districts on racial breakdown". Those are two very very different questions and I answered both.

> "if you don't vote for me, you're not"

That's not at all what I said and provided concrete evidence of why I think it's clear 1 party engages in racial gerrymandering and racial voter suppression. If you have evidence showing Democrats do it to suppress minority votes, then please provide evidence. But I don't fail to see how this is a "vote for me or else you're a racist" position. Maybe you can elaborate?

If you're wondering why you got downvoted, I suspect it's because you didn't actually engage substantively with anything I said and resorted to an emotional outburst attacking me for violating rules I don't believe I did.
hmm, almost like how complex discussions work, instead of meandering trains of impulsive thought
Sorry, I just meant to the story itself. NY Post and Unherd are low-quality sources given to beatups they think are in favour of their ideology.

I am specifically sceptical that this is any sort of significant thing, let alone a huge deal.

I'm not saying Unherd falsified quotes or anything, but I'm not at all convinced that this passes e.g. the Wikipedia "reliable sources" test of being worth mentioning in general (which Unherd probably wouldn't be and the NYP explicitly isn't).

Has anything mainstream covered it? I had a look in Google News for "MIT DEI" and it was overwhelmingly trash-tier sources of the Unherd/NYP level.
Risk is lost in the discussion but very relevant to management.

In theory, in the most productive engineering organization, each person is the expert at what they're doing and work is factored to avoid overlap. This happens somewhat naturally as people silo (to avoid conflict and preserve flexibility). This is actually the perfect system, if your people are perfect: their incentives are aligned, they're working with goodwill, etc.

But that makes every person critical, few people can operate at that level all the time, and fewer still want to work alone doing the same thing ad infinitum. Also, needs change, re-factors work and its mapping to workers.

So then you expand the scope to productivity over time with accommodation for change - i.e., capacity.

But by definition, capacity far exceeds output, and is thus unobservable and unmeasurable.

So instead you experiment and measure: switch roles, re-organize work, address new kinds of problems and prototype new kinds of solutions, bounded by reasonably anticipated product needs.

And to inject this uncertainty, you actually have to inject a lot of countervailing positivity, to deflect the fear of measurement or failure, to encourage sharing, etc.

Unfortunately, these experiments and freedom from consequences is pretty indistinguishable from the bureaucratic games and padding that productivity measures are designed to limit.
Fitbit Sense 2 is pretty dumb for a smart watch, but Polar H10 should be more accurate.
I searched that one up and it's on the "commercial" section of Panasonic's website with a price of "contact sales".

How did you end up with it?
Of course if you just take point samples, it fails as you say.

But I don't think people really understand what LOC stats look like in practice for engineering teams. The pattern I've consistently seen --across several companies and many teams-- is that most low-performers simply don't commit very much code every month/quarter/year/whatever. I'm not talking about the senior engineers whose job is architectural design and advising and code review, and so on, who contribute a ton to the project without a line of code. I'm talking here only about junior- or mid-level software engineers whose job is supposed to be hands-on-keyboard code. You will always find a number of them who simply push very little code of any significance, compared to their peers. This will be visible in their commits.

So while it's true that there's no function productivity=f(LOC), there is still information to be gleaned from reviewing the commits (in detail) of everyone on the team, and often one will see a correlation where the people who are not delivering much value to their team (they fix only few bugs, or they take a very long time to implement things, etc) they more-often-than-not have very low commit stats overall.
Uhh yes, it's to say there are actually real, practical differences in daily life between countries on the dimension of "freedom" and that these are not merely artifacts of one's own cognition or of rhetorical gotchas. They do not "barely have meaning" and one can travel to various places on the earth and try simple experiments to prove it.

Absolutely wild to be saying "go travel and try to exercise a freedom there" is seen as an appeal to cognition while "I would rather not engage in illusory thinking" is... what exactly?
You seem to have an extra level of html quoting occurring somewhere. For instance, I got the following synopsis for "Not Love, Just Frenzy" (1996):

From the land of Almodovar comes a hot new film about drugs, sex &amp; everything else!
I'm not sure which is worse; the fact that this is plausible, or the fact that I opened this thread to say almost exactly the same thing.
I so badly wanted an EV, but ultimately decided against it in part because of the range limitations. We live in a rural city. The next closest major cities are 2.5 to 3.5 hours drive away at highway speeds.

Technically, several EVs could make this drive in ideal conditions, but it’d be stretching it. In the winter, we’d have to charge.

Unfortunately, there only a single charger at the ideal range for us. Even the gap between the next two closest chargers is uncomfortably close to max range. We’d likely need to stop a total of 3 times to make these drives. THEN, we’d also need to drive an extra 20-30 minutes at our destination to top off for around town driving.

It’s looking like PHEV are going to be the only practical option for the foreseeable future.
Can you get touchscreens that are still usable when they get water on them? Say, from sprinkler system? I'm sure they have thought of this, but that's one pretty common situation where you really don't want a touchscreen for anything important. Of course, it might be almost impossible to get the screen wet in a nuclear control room, they probably have a different fire suppression system anyway.
Thanks for the rec. I’ve wanted to read “Debt” for a long time but I recently read Graeber’s book “the Dawn of Everything” and it bent the truth so much every which way to get to his POV that I won’t read another book by him.
> If you're engaging in C-suite politics as described in this article, what on earth would be the motivation for writing all this in public? I doubt the situation will evolve favourably to Mr Shore if the leadership team starts reading this.

I didn't get that impression at all from this blog post. I didn't see any "C-suite politics" really at all in this article:

1. At the end of the day, the C-suite is responsible for making the business successful. So it's reasonable to ask for some level of productivity measure, no matter how much engineering objects.

2. I thought the author was extremely insightful about (a) trying to get at the root of what execs really wanted, (b) acknowledging that calculating engineering productivity is notoriously difficult, but then (c) coming up with a best, honest estimate, while still highlighting the potential future pitfalls and the dangers of Goodhart's Law.

In short, I read this article as exactly the kind of engineering leadership a good C-suite would want to keep around and promote.
Add some probiotics, call it keto, give it a more modern packaging and palette, advertise on the L train, charge $6 a pack, give it a person's name like "Greta".
> Modern hard shells aren’t very waterproof in practice either because the membranes and DWR coatings aren’t very durable.

If the membrane gets blocked (ice, or soaked with water) they stop breathing and you get soaked from your own sweat.

Less waterprof alternatives can often be drier in practice.
To the point where if they're notified that your insurance has lapsed, they will warn you to get replacement coverage, or they will and then bill you for it.

I had a not so fun experience with switching insurance providers at about the same time that my bank was about to make the insurance payment out of escrow.
Can I ask how large your library can scale to? We have digraphs in the range of tens to hundreds of thousands of nodes, and every tool I've tried falls over. The layered digraph example from your site seems to hang forever at 10k, but that could just be how the example widget is set up.
Back in the day, Michael Abrash wrote quite a bit about how people would occasionally discover new video modes that VGA was capable of. Or, at lease some VGA controllers could support and others would crash the machine without warning.

For Quake1 he wrote a little script language around each step of setting up the various modes. With that, it was much easier to navigate the maze of “Step A and C both failed, that means it’s a Type 3 device and Step D will crash so, we should skip to the Branch 3 Path and hope for success at a lower resolution.”
Indeed many of these "complaints" are explicitly designed to filter out high-maintenance, needy, and stingy customers, leaving you with the people who are more than happy to say "shut up and take my money."
What do you think leverage means?

If I take a leveraged position on a stock via margin trading and the stock goes to $0 (or, more realistically, it dips in value enough that I get a margin call) then I owe the whole balance, not just what I put up as capital. This is true of literally any leverage. And on top of that, I pay a margin rate in the form of an interest payment based on the amount of money I have outstanding beyond my capital. Sounds familiar, right? Because it's exactly identical. The only difference between a mortgage and a margin interest payment is that a mortage is amoritized across the term and is a fixed period, whereas margin interest is indefinite and acts more like a HELOC (i.e., you only pay interest on the amount that you have outstanding... and that amount can vary over time).

I absolutely hate the idea that "paying X in interest means that's money you have to earn in addition to make it worthwhile". No, it's not. It's money you are paying to free up extra capital elsewhere that can be invested more efficiently. Unless you're spending well beyond your means (which, admittedly, some people do), then paying interest on a mortgage payment should mean making much much more elsewhere by investing money you would have spent on buying a house in cash.
The problem with protests is, it's not public opinion. So I don't know what you think it reveals. Poll after poll indicates that there is no appetite in Israel for accepting Hamas's terms, widespread support for military action against Hamas, and widespread opposition to a Palestinian state [1].

Alluding to a TV series is in no way indicative of the accuracy of opinion polls. Yes, Prime Minister is fictional. Israel is not fictional, the war is not fictional, the 1000s of people dead are not fictional, the 1000s of destroyed lives and trillions in destroyed capital is not fictional. Nothing about a fictional TV series is relevant here.

In reality, the Israelis are way more fed up with Gaza than it was 10 years ago and the support for a Palestinian state and peace with Hamas is not going to win anyone elections in Israel. You don't have to like it, but if you think getting rid of Netanyahu is going to change that, you are wrong. What might change is the government policy regarding settlements in the west bank, but it won't stop the war. The most likely person to replace Netanyahu, Benny Gantz, is more eager to enter Rafah than Netanyahu.

[1]: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/israel-gaza...
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One thing that would be nice to add to the "concluded" status would be a updated version of the highlighted text that started that thread. Probably the old version striked out, and some conclusion appended after it, that way you don't even have to open the thread.
Sounds like you haven't met those nice druggies just yet. I don't live in the USA and the law here is extremely lenient for druggies. Yet, pretty much every newspaper I read has some drug related crime in it. Robberies, mindless violence, extortion, murders, damage to properties, lovely stuff. I hate them with passion, and applaud Singaporeans for dealing with the scum appropriately.

Like I said, I would not care if druggies were decent people who just wanted to get high sometimes. However, unfortunately that is not how it works in the reality. They are the worst kind of people and I have zero sympathy for them after all the shit I've seen them do.
I have to say that my response to "not knowing what you're going to pay for something until you're billed" is basically, "well I guess we'll see if I can pay it then". You sort of start asking yourself, "what if I just don't pay?". I have a (deadbeat) buddy who's entire medical plan is essentially to give a fake name to the ER, and if you're poor in America, what else can you do?
> they recommend washing less

I think it makes sense that Patagonia sells them still. They still do sell high performance gear and I think that should exist.

But I think the bigger issue is that normal people are often buying high performance gear and treating them like normal clothing. I know people that will put their shells (outer layer) into the washing machine after a hike. Not only does it put microfibers and other chemicals into the water, but it ruins your shell. We got madlads washing their Gore-Tex rain jackets once or several times a week! You should only be washing them when they start wetting (water collects) or smell. Same is true for most water proof jackets.
It doesn't matter if it's masquerading as a license fee, it's by all means a tax - it's required by law and you go to jail if you do not pay it and you have to pay it even if you don't want to consume their content.
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel

Always makes me feel that I’m not ambitious enough. And that too many smart people are in the wrong industry (finance).

- The Dip, Seth Godin

Don’t give up. Unless you’re in a cul-de-sac.

- Obviously Awesome, April Dunford

Your competitor is often not who you think it is.
You used to be able to visit Dungeness but they are apparently still waiting for COVID19 to pass. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g3318368-d21...
Pretty cool use case for virtual threads. Recently I implemented something with core.async in order to batch messages and dispatch them to some UI code at a fixed rate. It was definitely a lot more complicated than using a single sempahore like shown in this article.

On a related note, it would be nice to have an implementation of CSP using proper virtual threads rather than the thread pool currently used by core.async. The promesa library currently has a proof-of-concept[1], but it doesn't seem interoperable with existing core.async code.

[1] https://funcool.github.io/promesa/latest/promesa.exec.csp.ht...
For language:

1. `getLanguage` should return the 2-letter ISO 3166-1 language code, or an empty string if missing. -- e.g. en, ru, fr, etc.

2. `getISO3Language` should return the 3-letter ISO 3166-1 language code, or an empty string if missing. -- e.g. eng, rus, fra, etc.

1. `getDisplayLanguage` should return the language display name in the current locale, or an empty string if missing. -- e.g. English, Russian, French, etc.
We're now back to email threads again it seems. (This is not the criticism it might seem, I miss the days of long-form proposals discussed through email, it promotes a kind of thinking that Slack etc doesn't).
With the exception of the unicorn story which a lot of people found problematic for its treatment of children, I think the laundry files are pretty good
It's how comments are ranked, and displayed based on "rank"

>couldn't* care less

>my..."troll metric" / rage bait/"le reddit quantification", formalized as a response's comment's conversational entropy divided by parent comment length, this is a fantastic comment.
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>Pure, distilled, thought provocation.
Nonsensical comment (even these "disinformation campaigns" are press), but I'll try to find meaning where there is little to be found and humor you.

You cannot let the legislative decide what constitutes an "enemy disinformation campaign" and what is "free press". It's an obvious weak spot in your democracy bad actors can exploit - far more dangerous than foreign propaganda that has to measure up against friendly outlets.
Additionally, it can help with systems where 2-phase commits can lead to weird and complex situations. This is where applying SAGA and using Transactional Outbox can help: it should allow for abstracting away the event stream away from the main application logic, the CDC mirror can then handle generating the stream.
This can also allow for plug-and-play of other downstream services/sinks from the CDC stream.
Lambda Labs has on-demand GPUs. Just put in a credit card and you're able to launch. I launched an 1x H100 server just 10 minutes ago on Lambda Labs.

The price is also $2.49/hr which does not seem predatory at all.